Valentina "What? Why? We're winning!" Chrissy said, panting as she swung out with her knives again. "You're not driving them together, you're taking out their front lines," William said urgently. "And once you're all in one place—" "—Their real force comes out to take us out, after we've tired ourselves out," I finished. "We have to get—wait," I turned to William, thinking hard. "It's fine," I said, my mind quickly calculating different possibilities. "We should keep going." "You're giving me whiplash," Chrissy complained, coming back to a fighting stance. "Do we retreat or not?" "They're going to surround us," I rushed, scanning the streets again. "With vampires that are far more experienced in combat than the ones we've been up against so far. They're trying to get us to expend all

